I was helping him off the ice, you know, and I heard him whisper, 'Don't worry, Captain, I'm all right.

Get me another pair of skates.

It will take a little time.'" "Do you mean he wasn't hurt ?" exclaimed Patricia indignantly.

"Indeed he was; he was almost killed, I am sure he was." "Oh, he was hurt right enough," said Hugh, "but he wasn't killed by any means!" "And then," continued Patricia, "there was the most terrible riot and uproar.

Everybody seemed to be on the ice and fighting.